The prompt
Score 10 of 10, Excellent
Use it when You want a running record of what you did at work, with evidence, so performance reviews, promotion cases and resume updates are easy to write later.
- {{period}}
- {{later_uses}}
- {{notes}}
- {{role_and_goals}}
Full prompt and why it works
Prompt
Turn my rough notes from the last {{period}} into entries for my brag document: a running record of my work that I add to regularly, for me to draw on later in {{later_uses}}. The point is to capture facts while I still remember them, so the record has to be accurate rather than impressive. My notes (messages, task lists, calendar items, feedback I received): """ {{notes}} """ My role, and what my manager cares about most this year: {{role_and_goals}} For each piece of work worth recording, write an entry with: 1. Date or week. 2. What I did, in one sentence starting with a verb. 3. Result or impact, only as my notes state it: numbers, feedback, a decision it made possible, a problem it prevented. 4. Evidence: where the proof lives, such as a document name, a message from a colleague, or a dashboard. 5. Goal it relates to, from the list above, or "other". 6. Who else was involved, so the work is credited fairly. Return the entries as a table, most recent first. Then list up to 5 items from my notes that might be worth recording but where my part or the result is unclear, each with a question for me. A good entry is one I could paste into a self-review a year from now and still back up. Keep each "What I did" under 25 words. Leave out routine work that anyone in my role does every week, unless my notes show it went unusually well or badly. For example, an entry in the form wanted: "Week of [date] | Wrote the onboarding checklist for new support hires | Both new hires used it; my manager said in our 1:1 that it saved her time | 1:1 notes, [date] | Team onboarding goal | [colleague] reviewed the draft". This example shows the form only. Never inflate my role: if my notes say I helped, write that I helped, not that I led. Do not add results, numbers or praise that are not in my notes. If you cannot tell whether something was my work or a teammate's, put it in the questions list rather than in the table.
Variables
- {{period}}
- The time your notes cover, for example "two weeks" or "month".
- {{later_uses}}
- What you will use the record for, for example "my annual review and a promotion case next spring".
- {{notes}}
- Your raw notes: finished tasks, messages, praise, problems solved. Paste as is.
- {{role_and_goals}}
- Your job title and the goals or priorities you are measured on this year.
Why it works
- What to avoid. "Helped" stays "helped" and no praise or numbers are added, so the record holds up when you quote it to your manager later.
- Background facts. Each entry names where the evidence lives, which is what turns a list of claims into something you can prove at review time.
- If unsure. Work where your part is unclear goes to a questions list instead of the table, so a teammate's work never ends up credited to you.